Sabbathism

English

Etymology

Sabbath +‎ -ism

Noun

Sabbathism (uncountable)

  1. (dated, Christianity) The tendency to treat the Sabbath as a solemn religious occasion rather than merely as a day off.
    Antonym: holidayism
    • 1884, The Outlook and Sabbath Quarterly, volumes 3-6, page 325:
      […] they do not want the lowest forms of excitement, or of literature; they want something which shall occupy the middle ground between the debauchery of low holidayism and the religious observance which comes with Sabbathism.
    • 1892, Abram Herbert Lewis, Paganism Surviving in Christianity:
      As to Sunday legislation we have seen that its origin was absolutely pagan, and that it has been destructive of true Sabbathism at all times.
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